Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accuses the government of playing politics with the test results in order to defeat a Senate measure that would require all cars to improve the fleet average to 40 m.p.g. by the year 2000 -- a goal that would force the auto companies to make smaller cars. A car industry spokesman, however, counters that the new standards will force the consumer into fewer choices and a greater risk of serious injury...
...year-old became one of sport's most recognizable figures for his smile and enthusiasm. The smile was still there yesterday, just faintly dimmed, and he said he would become a spokesman for AIDS groups, hoping to promote safe sex among youngsters...
Johnson didn't waste time assuming his role as a spokesman for awareness of AIDS...
...market for nearly $850,000, which represented a 200% profit on his original stake. Yet he failed to report the transaction until last March, in apparent violation of Securities and Exchange Commission rules. Bush contended at the time that the SEC had misplaced the report. Responds SEC spokesman John Heine: "As far as I know, nobody ever found the 'lost' filing." Bush declined to comment on either the incident or his involvement with Harken...
...Michigan Democrat admitted writing nine checks that his House bank account could not cover during a five-week period in early 1990. All were inadvertent, he asserted through a spokesman, and were covered as soon as they were discovered. "It was an honest mistake," said aide Dennis Fitzgibbons. + "These bounced checks did not cost the taxpayer any money. The overdrafts were voluntarily disclosed...